Zao Wou-Ki, whose real name is T’chao Wou-Ki, is one of those painters where a double influence deeply marks his work. Anchored between two inspirations since he was fifteen years old, Zao Wou-ki is the painter who masters Chinese and Western techniques like no other. Indeed, he made his first steps at the Hangzhou School of Fine Arts among Chinese and European professors. On the strength of this apprenticeship, he went to Paris in 1948 where he trained his eye and forged his style by admiring the masterpieces of the Louvre. Zao Wou-Ki remains one of the few artists to have enjoyed dazzling success during his lifetime. Retrospectives, major exhibitions, catalogues raisonnées, commissions from the Manufacture de Sèvres, he is the painter of all the internationally renowned successes. However, despite this recognition, Zao Wou-Ki did not forget the country that welcomed him in his youth and obtained French nationality in 1962.
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